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Cliff Richard's fifth movie, released in the summer of 1964, was another wonderful knockabout, absurd and adorable in more or less equal doses, and accompanied, of course, by a soundtrack which squeezed every last ounce of effervescence from the plot. The formula was, by now, firmly entrenched. The Michael Sammes Singers twitter, Norrie Paramor produces, and the Associated British Studio Orchestra lavish everything beneath monstrous slabs of sweet strings and wind. Meanwhile, the Shadows rattle along as both an understated backing band and, when the mood hits, frontmen in their own right, throwing two characteristic guitar-led instrumentals into the brew -- "Walkin'" and "Theme for Young Lovers." Equally predictably, the hits flew from the album -- "Theme for Young Lovers" reached number 12 in the U.K., Richard's understatedly grand "On the Beach" made number seven, and both the title track and "Do You Remember" remained favorites long after the movie slipped off the screens. Ah, but there is where comparisons with past soundtracks end. The others were fun because they were so ridiculously enjoyable. This one's fun because...actually, it's no fun at all. It is, however, contrived, condescending, and, for the most part, utterly overblown. Calm down -- it does have a few great moments. "Wonderful Life" itself comes over like something from a Broadway spectacular, all racing orchestration, broad backing vocals, and imbibed with the same timeless bravado which one normally associates with the classics of the 1940s and 1950s. But that, too, is a damning confession. The hit singles aside, there is no denying the audience which Wonderful Life was gunning for -- the mums and dads (and beyond) who still had time for pop, but maybe found the latest crop of superstars a little too outlandish for their tastes. All that long hair, all those suggestive lyrics, all that hand-holding and yeah, yeah, yeah-ing. No such dangers here. The frothy over-excitement of "Home," the stirring big band buoyancy of "A Little Imagination," the string-driven simplicity of "In the Stars," everything harks back to an earlier age, a more innocent time. In fact, in the brutally blunt parlance of the time, Cliff Richard was now so well-rounded an entertainer that he was turning positively square. And Wonderful Life really didn't seem so wonderful, after all.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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Norrie Paramor, Producer - Bruce Welch, Writer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Cliff Richard, Lead Vocals - Brian Bennett, Writer - ABS Orchestra, Lead Vocals - Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra, All Instruments, Performed by - Cliff Richard & ABS Orchestra, Vocals, MainArtist - The Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra, Performed by
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Cliff Richard, Lead Vocals - The Mike Sammes Singers, Vocals - Peter Myers, Writer - Mike Sammes Singers, Backing Vocals - Stanley Black, Director - ABS Orchestra, Lead Vocals - Ronald Cass, Writer - Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra - Cliff Richard & ABS Orchestra, Vocals, MainArtist - The Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Bruce Welch, Composer - The Shadows, MainArtist - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Hank Marvin, Composer - Brian Bennett, Composer
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Remastering Engineer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Cliff Richard, Featured Vocalist, MainArtist - The Mike Sammes Singers, Vocals - Peter Myers, Writer - Stanley Black, Director - Ronald Cass, Writer - The Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, MasteringEngineer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Cliff Richard, Featured Vocalist, MainArtist - Peter Myers, Writer - Stanley Black, Director - Ronald Cass, Writer - The Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Bruce Welch, Writer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Lead Vocals, Writer - Hank Marvin, Writer - Norrie Paramor & His Orchestra, Orchestra, Lead Vocals, All Instruments, Performed by - The Norrie Paramor Orchestra, Orchestra, Performed by - Cliff Richard With Norrie Paramor And His Orchestra, Vocals, MainArtist
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Cliff Richard, Lead Vocals - Peter Myers, Writer - Stanley Black, Director - ABS Orchestra, Lead Vocals - Ronald Cass, Writer - Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra - Cliff Richard & ABS Orchestra, Vocals, MainArtist - The Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Cliff Richard, Lead Vocals - The Mike Sammes Singers, Vocals - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Richard Lush, Engineer - Ron Hill, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Alan Kane, Engineer - Peter Myers, Writer - Bob Barratt, Producer - Mike Sammes Singers, Backing Vocals - Stanley Black, Director - Terry Birch, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - ABS Orchestra, Lead Vocals - Ronald Cass, Writer - Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra - Cliff Richard & ABS Orchestra, Vocals, MainArtist - The Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Bruce Welch, Writer - The Shadows, Vocals - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Hank Marvin, Writer - Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Vocals, MainArtist - Norrie Paramor & His Orchestra, Strings - The Norrie Paramor Strings, Strings
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Bruce Welch, Writer - Jimmy Johnson, Engineer - The Shadows, Vocals - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - The Mike Sammes Singers, Vocals - Hank Marvin, Writer - Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Vocals, MainArtist - Mike Sammes Singers, Backing Vocals
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Bruce Welch, Composer - The Shadows, MainArtist - Keith Bessey, Engineer - Bnruce Welch, Composer
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Cliff Richard, Lead Vocals - The Mike Sammes Singers, Vocals - Peter Myers, Writer - Mike Sammes Singers, Backing Vocals - Stanley Black, Director - ABS Orchestra, Lead Vocals - Ronald Cass, Writer - Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra - Cliff Richard & ABS Orchestra, Vocals, MainArtist - The Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Bruce Welch, Writer - The Shadows, Vocals - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Vocals, MainArtist - Norrie Paramor & His Orchestra, Strings - The Norrie Paramor Strings, Strings
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Cliff Richard, Lead Vocals - The Mike Sammes Singers, Vocals - Richard Lush, Engineer - Alan Kane, Engineer - Peter Myers, Writer - Bob Barratt, Producer - Mike Sammes Singers, Backing Vocals - Stanley Black, Director - ABS Orchestra, Lead Vocals - Ronald Cass, Writer - Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra - Cliff Richard & ABS Orchestra, Vocals, MainArtist - The Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - The Shadows, Vocals - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Vocals, MainArtist - Frank Ifield, Writer
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Bruce Welch, Writer - The Shadows, Vocals - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Hank Marvin, Writer - Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Vocals, MainArtist - Norrie Paramor & His Orchestra, Strings - The Norrie Paramor Strings, Strings
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Norrie Paramor, Producer - Bruce Welch, Writer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Malcolm Addey, Engineer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Brian Bennett, Writer - John O'Neill, Vocals - Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra, All Instruments, Performed by - Mike Redway, Vocals - Michael Sammes, Vocals - The Associated British Studio Orchestra, Orchestra, Performed by - Ross Gilmour, Vocals - Irene King, Vocals - Enid Heard, Vocals - Valerie Bain, Vocals - Marion Gay, Vocals - Mel Todd, Vocals
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Roy Bennett, Writer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, MasteringEngineer - Cliff Richard, Featured Vocalist, MainArtist - Sid Tepper, Writer - BILLY SHERRILL, Producer - Bob Morgan, Producer
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Presentación del Álbum
Cliff Richard's fifth movie, released in the summer of 1964, was another wonderful knockabout, absurd and adorable in more or less equal doses, and accompanied, of course, by a soundtrack which squeezed every last ounce of effervescence from the plot. The formula was, by now, firmly entrenched. The Michael Sammes Singers twitter, Norrie Paramor produces, and the Associated British Studio Orchestra lavish everything beneath monstrous slabs of sweet strings and wind. Meanwhile, the Shadows rattle along as both an understated backing band and, when the mood hits, frontmen in their own right, throwing two characteristic guitar-led instrumentals into the brew -- "Walkin'" and "Theme for Young Lovers." Equally predictably, the hits flew from the album -- "Theme for Young Lovers" reached number 12 in the U.K., Richard's understatedly grand "On the Beach" made number seven, and both the title track and "Do You Remember" remained favorites long after the movie slipped off the screens. Ah, but there is where comparisons with past soundtracks end. The others were fun because they were so ridiculously enjoyable. This one's fun because...actually, it's no fun at all. It is, however, contrived, condescending, and, for the most part, utterly overblown. Calm down -- it does have a few great moments. "Wonderful Life" itself comes over like something from a Broadway spectacular, all racing orchestration, broad backing vocals, and imbibed with the same timeless bravado which one normally associates with the classics of the 1940s and 1950s. But that, too, is a damning confession. The hit singles aside, there is no denying the audience which Wonderful Life was gunning for -- the mums and dads (and beyond) who still had time for pop, but maybe found the latest crop of superstars a little too outlandish for their tastes. All that long hair, all those suggestive lyrics, all that hand-holding and yeah, yeah, yeah-ing. No such dangers here. The frothy over-excitement of "Home," the stirring big band buoyancy of "A Little Imagination," the string-driven simplicity of "In the Stars," everything harks back to an earlier age, a more innocent time. In fact, in the brutally blunt parlance of the time, Cliff Richard was now so well-rounded an entertainer that he was turning positively square. And Wonderful Life really didn't seem so wonderful, after all.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
Acerca del álbum
- 1 disco(s) - 18 pista(s)
- Duración total: 00:51:43
- Artistas principales: Cliff Richard
- Compositor: Various Composers
- Sello: Parlophone UK
- Género Pop/Rock Rock
© 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2005 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
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